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Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

Eritay, that's a powerful word. To the Greeks, it meant excellence. It was the ultimate expression of

human greatness, moral, physical, spiritual. It's what the Stoics we're chasing.

It's what you're chasing today. But how do we get there? Well, Aritate requires a certain

philosophical approach because brilliance and inspiration and skill are not enough. We are what we

repeatedly do, Aristotle said. Therefore, excellence is not an act,

but a habit. In other words, excellence isn't this thing you do one time. It's a way of living. It's

foundational. It's like an operating system, and the code this system operates on is habit.

As Epictetus would later say,

capability is confirmed and grows in its corresponding actions, walking by walking,

and running by running. Therefore, if you want to do something, make a habit of it.

So if we want to be happy, if we want to be successful, if we want to be great,

we have to develop the capability. We have to be successful, if we want to be great, we have to develop the

capability. We have to develop the day-to-day habits that allow this to ensue. And that's great

news because it means that impressive results and enormous changes are possible without Herkulean

effort or magical formulas. Small adjustments, good systems, the right processes,

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